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Call Number: SC0033B
Creator:
Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905.
Title: Jane Lathrop Stanford papers
Dates: 1860-1975
Physical Description:
10.5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Custodial History
Gifts of Jane Lathrop Stanford, Thomas Welton Stanford, David Starr Jordan, Helen Stanford Canfield, David H. Canfield, and
others; also includes purchases.
None.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
[Identification of item], Jane Lathrop Stanford Papers (SC0033B). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Jane Eliza Lathrop was born August 25, 1828, the daughter of Dyer Lathrop of Albany, New York. In 1850 she married Leland
Stanford, returning with him to California in 1855 where they settled in Sacramento. Leland Stanford later became President
of the Southern Pacific Railroad and Governor of California. Their only child, Leland Stanford, Jr., was born in 1868. During
a European tour in 1884 he contracted typhoid fever and died in Florence, Italy. In 1885, Jane and Leland Stanford founded
the Leland Stanford Junior University, in memory of their son. Jane was a full partner with her husband in the planning of
the University, which opened in the fall of 1891. After her husband's death in 1893, she overcame great financial hardships
to keep the University open until her husband's estate was settled. Thereafter, she directed expansion of the campus. She
died on February 28, 1905 in Honolulu, Hawaii.
The papers of Jane L. Stanford pertain largely to the founding and administration of Stanford University, along with her personal
and social affairs; included in the papers are correspondence, business records, legal and financial papers, speeches, newsclippings,
and biographical materials.
Anthony, Susan B., (Susan Brownell), 1820-1906.
Branner, John Casper, 1850-1922.
Cesnola, Luigi Palma di, 1832-1904.
Crocker, Charles Frederick.
Crothers, George Edward, 1870-1957.
Day, Clinton.
Gurke Ranch (Calif.).
Harrison, Benjamin, 1833-1901.
Hopkins, Timothy, 1859-1937.
Jenkins, Oliver Peebles, Mrs.
Jordan, David Starr, 1851-1931.
Jordan, Jessie Knight, 1851-1931.
Lathrop, Ariel.
Lathrop, Charles G. (Charles Gardner), 1849-1914.
Lathrop, Dyer, 1787-1855.
Lathrop, Jane Ann Shields.
Leib, Samuel Franklin, 1848-1924.
Lothrop family.
Nash, Herbert C.
Newton, Heber.
Pacific Improvement Company..
Palo Alto Stock Farm..
Ross, Edward Alsworth, 1866-1951.
Shepley, Rutan, & Coolidge, Architects.
Shields, Daniel.
Sloss, Leon.
Smith, Nicholas T.
Southern Pacific Company..
Stanford Alumni Association
Stanford Museum of Art..
Stanford University. Faculty Club.
Stanford University. Japanese Students Association.
Stanford University. Libraries.
Stanford University. Memorial Church
Stanford University--Administration.
Stanford University--Assembly Hall.
Stanford University--Faculty.
Stanford, Charles Villiers, 1852-1924.
Stanford, Gertrude.
Stanford, Helen M.
Stanford, Jane Lathrop, 1828-1905.
Stanford, Josiah W., 1864-1937.
Stanford, Leland, 1868-1884.
Stanford, Thomas Welton, 1832-1918.
Suzzallo, Henry, 1875-1933.
Taylor, Edward Robeson, 1838-1923.
Claims against decedents' estates.
Executors and administrators.
Palo Alto (Calif.)--History.
Railroads--Management.
Universities and colleges--Administration.
Vina Ranch (Calif.)